raymond@io.ame.arizona.edu (Raymond Man) (05/30/89)
From: raymond@io.ame.arizona.edu (Raymond Man) >ssc-vax!shuksan!major@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Mike Schmitt) ><6938@cbnews.ATT.COM> >. >. >. >major mike > "Up at 'em Maitland, Guards!" > - Wellington at Waterloo "What I must have said and possibly did say was '"Standup! Guard!"' and then I turned to the commander and gave the order to attack" - Wellington in prviate communication after Waterloo Just call me `Man'. raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu [mod.note: The Iron Duke appears to have been a well-misquoted fellow... "Do not let my opponents castigate me with the blather that Waterloo was won on the playfields of Eton, for the fact remains geographically, historically, and tactically, whether the great Duke uttered such undiluted nonsense or not, that it was won on the fields in Belgium by carrying out a fundamental principle of war, the principle of mass; in other words by marching on to those fields three Englishmen, Germans, or Belgians to every two Frenchmen." - J.F.C. Fuller, quoted by T.N. Dupuy in _Understanding War_ - Bill ]